"The flight has landed with 330 passengers on board," Kerala Minister for Diaspora K C Joseph told PTI.
The flight landed at around 12.30 AM. The minister along with several state government officials was at the airport to welcome the evacuees.
The Indian nationals, including nurses and workers, among others, reached home by the special AI flight, bringing an end to their more than a week-long ordeal.
They were part of over 650 Indian nationals who were brought to Djibouti from Sanaa early in the day today.
This is the second landing of a plane carrying Indian nationals evacuated from Yemen at Kochi.
In the early hours on Thursday, an IAF plane carrying 168 Indian nationals evacuated from Yemen had landed at Kochi.
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